President Trump pardoned Michele Fiore, a Republican member of the Las Vegas City Council who was convicted for using donations raised for a statue of a fallen police officer on herself instead.
WILL JUDGE DUGAN BECOME THE NEXT HERO OF THE RESISTANCE? The Trump administration’s campaign against sanctuary jurisdictions took a big step forward on Friday when federal agents arrested a county judge in Milwaukee after the judge allegedly helped an illegal immigrant accused of multiple crimes hide from federal immigration officials who had come to detain him. […]
One of the several women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sex trafficking died on Friday at the age of 41. Virginia Giuffre was pronounced dead by suicide at her farm in Western Australia, her publicist confirmed to the Associated Press. “Deeply loving, wise and funny, she was a beacon to other survivors and victims,” publicist...
Former House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) slammed the Democratic Party over its internal fractions, comparing the battle between figureheads to a “civil war.” “The party we are watching today, Democrat, is a civil war. It's the reason why there are no leaders of the party,” McCarthy said during a Friday morning appearance on Fox...
Luigi Mangione pleaded not guily to a federal judge on Friday, denying his involvement in the Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione, a 26 year old Ivy League graduate from Maryland, could be charged with capital punishment if convicted of the violent crime. Attorney General Pam Bondi encouraged the acting U.S. Attorney for...
Trump’s tariffs represent a clumsy attempt to replace a global trading system based on stability and deliberation with his unilateral rage- and power-driven trade war.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) has invoked the Senate’s “blue slip” tradition to block President Trump’s appointees to serve as U.S. attorneys for two of the most prestigious districts in the country, the Southern District and the Eastern District of New York. Schumer announced Wednesday that he will use his senatorial privilege to block...
A second adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been suspended amid an ongoing probe into leaks of information at the Pentagon. The Defense Department’s deputy chief of staff, Darin Selnick, was placed on administrative leave “pending an investigation,” a U.S. Defense official told The Hill. Selnick’s suspension came as part of the same investigation...
A group of 12 students sued the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) over changes that have been made to curriculum and book removals in its schools. The lawsuit accuses the DODEA of eliminating curriculum that deals with subjects such as slavery, Native American history, and LGBTQ issues, taking books off shelves and canceling events the government says are...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced plans to sue the Trump administration Wednesday, challenging President Trump's authority to enact tariffs they claim will cause “immediate and irreparable harm” to the Golden State. In the lawsuit, expected to be filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
Former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) is neck and neck with her main rival in the Oakland special mayoral election, with the race too close to call. The initial tally of the results of the ranked-choice election shows former City Council member Loren Taylor (D) leading with 48.2 percent of the vote, just over 1,000 votes more...
Democrats often distract from the real issue of immigration laws by talking non-stop about immigration, while failing to acknowledge the fact that enforcing immigration laws as written would prevent many murders and crimes committed by illegal aliens.
The Gavel is The Hill's courts newsletter. Sign up by clicking here or adding your email in the box below. The Gavel has broken down the more than 200 lawsuits challenging major Trump administration actions and it found that most of the cases — 72 percent — have been assigned by judges appointed by a Democratic...
The Jan. 6 defendants granted sweeping clemency by President Trump are growing increasingly vexed with his administration because they don’t believe it’s delivering on his campaign promise of payback for their prosecutions. It marks the apparent end of a honeymoon period between the administration and some of Trump’s most ardent supporters, as criticisms that top...
Vice President Vance defended the Trump administration’s move to deport Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, criticizing legal efforts to secure his return to the U.S. In a lengthy post on the social platform X on Tuesday, Vance argued that former President Biden allowed approximately 20 million undocumented immigrants into the country, which he said has...
